Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day..
Mary’s wedding combusts like nitrate in Her Bridal Night-Mare, a 1920 one-reel grenade lobbed by slapstick’s late-teens anarchists. Clocking a breathless twelve minutes, the film stitches Keystone chaos to a bridal gown and lets every stitch pop. The result is a celluloid panic attack that feels closer to Cocteau than...
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" Mary’s wedding combusts like nitrate in Her Bridal Night-Mare, a 1920 one-reel grenade lobbed by slapstick’s late-teens anarchists. Clocking a breathless twelve minutes, the film stitches Keystone chaos to a bridal gown and lets every stitch pop. The result is a celluloid panic attack that feels closer to Cocteau than to Under the Top’s trench-war yuks. Colleen Moore, months shy of her flapper immortality, plays Mary as a kohl-rimmed Cassandra in satin pumps. She enters in a lattice of morning..."
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